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" Turkish empire, and that we are building up our Eastern policy on a false foundation — namely, on the perpetual maintenance of the most immoral and filthy of all despotisms over one of the fairest portions of the earth which it has desolated, and over... "
Speeches on Questions of Public Policy - Page 321
by John Bright - 1868
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Life and Times of the Right Hon. John Bright

William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - 1877 - 568 pages
...the Turkish empire, and that we are building up our Eastern policy on a false foundation — namely, on the perpetual maintenance of the most immoral and...the subject Christian population of Turkey. I have 240 DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR. said nothing about our pretended sacrifices for freedom in...
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Life and Times of the Right Hon. John Bright

William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - 1889 - 606 pages
...our Eastern policy on a false foundation — namely, on the perpetual maintenance of tha most unmoral and filthy of all despotisms over one of the fairest...of the wretched delusion that we are fighting for civilisation in supporting the Turk against the Russian, and against the subject Christian population...
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The life and times of the right hon. John Bright

William Robertson (reporter.) - 1883 - 620 pages
...the Turkish empire, and that we are building up our Eastern policy on a false foundation — namely, on the perpetual maintenance of the most immoral and...desolated, and over a population it has degraded but lias not been able to destroy. I have said nothing of the wretched delusion that we are fighting for...
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Present Day Papers, Volume 4

1901 - 482 pages
...Ibid, Vol. I, p. 515. \ Ibid, Vol. I., p. 443. § Ibid, Vol. I, p. 444. 6? false foundation — namely, on the perpetual maintenance of the most immoral and...portions of the earth which it has desolated, and orer a population it has degraded but has not been able to destroy."* It was into the hands of this...
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The Life of John Bright

George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1913 - 548 pages
...of the Turkish Empire, and we are building up our Eastern Policy on a false foundation — namely, on the perpetual maintenance of the most immoral and...it has degraded but has not been able to destroy.' Cobden and Bright were the first to bring forward this aspect of the Balkan question, which Gladstone...
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Absalom Watkin: Extracts from His Journal, 1814-1856

Absalom Watkin, A. E. Watkin - 1920 - 382 pages
...a pitiful imposture, and our whole Eastern policy is based on a false foundation, because we aim at the perpetual maintenance of the most immoral and filthy of all despotisms," — that of Turkey. When you wrote this abusive character of the government of the Sultan, it is clear...
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Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood

1854 - 600 pages
...of the Turkish empire, and that we are building up our Eastern Policy on a false foundation, namely, on the perpetual maintenance of the most immoral and...earth which it has desolated, and over a population which it has degraded, but has not been able to destroy. I have said nothing of the wretched delusion...
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In Byron's Shadow: Modern Greece in the English and American Imagination

David Roessel - 2001 - 416 pages
...Russia, but with all the Christian population of the Turkish empire," and he questioned a policy founded on the "perpetual maintenance of the most immoral and filthy of all despotism over one of the fairest portions of the earth." He added: "Our love for civilization, when...
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United States Magazine of Science, Art, Manufactures, Agriculture ..., Volume 1

1854 - 434 pages
...foundation — namely, on the perpetual maintenance of the most immoral and'Dlty of all despotismg over one of the fairest portions of the earth, which...we are fighting for civilization in supporting the Turks against the Rnsssian and against the subject Christian population of Turkey. I have said nothing...
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The life and times of the right hon. John Bright, Volume 2

William Robertson (reporter.) - 1884 - 416 pages
...we are building up our Eastern poliey on a false foundation — namely, on the perpetual maintenanee of the most immoral and filthy of all despotisms, over one of the fairest portions of the earth whieh it has desolated, and over a population it has degraded but has not been able to destroy. I have...
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